impressive dna work done here. >> so it's for solving crimes or cancer in questions, somebody wants to know is this my child, do i have ny kind off3 susceptibility for a disease, we can test for that. >> reporter: in this lab, there's no limit to using science to answer just about any question. >> t's a lot of responsibility, but t's something that i think we all step back at the enddof the day and the end of the week, wow, we did some life changing things and we feel good about firefighters rush to a three-alarm blaze in canton. homes ann businesses.veral area the price of everyyhing seems to be going up this holiday season. i'm joel d smith, from driving to paying for gas to even what

welcome back to fox 45 earl he edition. you're taking a live look over the inner harbor. good morning, i'm pattice harris. time to get back into a new

week. meteorologist steve fertig is here to tell us what the weather will look like for this holiday weekend. everybody is ooking forward to thanksgiving.ú so fast.gdz givingthanksgiving,d >> once thanksgiving comes and christmas is, anddthe holidays are here. >> the coolerrair is going to come out. >> not today, we have a mild daú today and tomorrow. look at the temperatures right now the we're at 50 degrees which is certainly not bad for this hour for this time of year. that is in baltimore, and d.c. the same. 39 in salisbury, that is more, 47 degrees n hagerstown and 50 in occasio oakland. that's is the way it should be, not he way you may like it. be prepared for a littleebit of reduced visibility to the north it looks like as we get a southerly flow bringing more moisture. rain to the ohio valley steers to the north out of our way. mostly cloudy skies and fog before we start to ee clearing3 and a partly cloudy to mostly sunny afternoon.

we get up to 56 by noon, topping at 66 degrees by 3:00 and dropping back to 59 degrees by 6:00 p.m. witt mostly clear skies. herr is candace dold with the traffic edge. >> reporter: it's a big weekk busy travel time. we're checking in on the aatual roads for you. we're talking about fog warnings that aae in effect on route 50 at the bridge. you can see the fog moving over the area. be careful that make surr that your low beams aae,,of course, not the high beams. we need to talk about an acciddnt on the beltway a ann3 accident at outer loop lanes at jfx, no significant back up at this time, but we will continue ú% on the situation for you. 11 minutes and 53 miles per hour, and 95 is looking good, and we're in the green from the fort mchenry tunnel toward the belttay, 8 minutes at 55 miles per hour and nothing to complaii about from the harbor ttnnel toward 895.ú a 9-minute trip, at 55 miles per

hour there. that's a look at mooning travels, patrice, over to you. 5:34 on fox 45 early edition. it's shaping up to be an expensive hhliday week for travelerss aaa predicts many more people will be on the road and they will bb paying nearly $0.30 more per gallon to do it and the meal that they're all racing to, will be pricier as well. joel d smith is live to alk turkey and the other prrce of ú%rkey. >> reporter: good mmrning joel. >> reporter: good morninn, patrice. you got to get out there earll if you're going to beat the traffic. this time yyu can't beaa certain prices, we're talking about the gallon $0.30 higher, that is a lot highee than it was last year, $0.30 more than it was last year of the. even in the past few weeks, itts gone up about a nickel. if you're looking at the dinner late, you're looking at more as well for ttese guys. these pprricularrfolks are going to be your meal for christmas if you'rr going in the turkey

the ones in your plate right now may be a dollar p pee pound higher, because the feed cost going into it. we have the farmer with us right now. are you going anywhere for thanksgiving. >> no, i'm so wore outcome thanksgiving day, i want to sit on my couch and watch football. >> reporter: do you compare time. >> there's nothing that compares. we start two weeks processing, cleaning, moving it up and getting the birds. we take a lot of time raising them, we're in the barn three times a day, constantly checking feeders and water. it is 24-hour days. >> reporter: you're doing thht every year, no matter what. this year? >> corn went up. feed cost went up 30%. i didn't get a chance to pass it on to the consumer. i just have to absorb that

increase this year. we have beautifuu birds this -ear, they grew great. they have a broad breast oo themment they''e clean, they're healthy. i was tickled to death with the way they grew this year. all in all, the turkey season has been reaaly good, the processing and ssles have good. we're actually picking up some sales which i was ssrprised. >> reporter: people are still paying for it, because they want their meal. patrice, when it comes down to it, when you're traveling you know you're going to be paying for that cost. this year the people will pay for the turkey as well. it seems according to farmer tom, people are doing it, because this is the week they want to he soot famil!! see the. >> it's not a surprise, because it's a tradition. thanksgiving time isn't the same for people would are used to tuukey if you don't have it. >> reporter: the travel cost, lass year people scaled back, this timm the conomy is betterment one of the reports that i read said that maryland is doing better than a lot of

other states. that's why it's 11% jump in3 travel when it comes to the maryland travelers even though the cast for gas is up. maybe we have seen the turn around. it's hard to measure the economy in different ways. if we'rr talking turkey, that's the way it's going n the right directiin. >> all right, joel, thank you. %-in canton are damaged followig a three-allrm fire. flames broke out in a home on south mon ford street. that home along with the one next door are nearly gone. a salon and a restaurant that opened on monday are also damaged. >> the upstairs of the property from hoses aad ripping out thh ceilings and everything is destrryed. >> one person was taken to bay view medical center for inor burns. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. congress faces big challenges aa it heads back to work during theeupcoming ake dumb session. big task includes tax cuts,

renewing unemployment benefits and addrrssing ssues like don't and don't tell. melanie has more on the challenges that lawwakers face. >> reporter: with little time left on the clocc, congress has to pass the budget for a bill to fund the government temporarily. they need to make ecisions for doctors and whether to extend unemployment benefits to millions and whether to extend bush tax cuts before they expiie on december thirst, the obama administration should focus on creating jobs. >> democratic leaders plan tt use the last few deals that lawmakees expect to spend in washington this year, focusing on everything except preventing this tax hike which will cost us even more jobs. >> reporter: so will congresss lame uck session end up being productive or will it be lame. the obama administration hopes they have time to tackle top issues like a future missile defense system in europe.

-p>> we're continuing to work wh the democratic and republican senators to try to hold a vote this year. >> reportee: there's a topic to whether to repeal the don't and, don't tell policy. he would rather see the lame duck address it than have it decide it in the courts. >> at some point in time be the cots ould change this law and in that not give us the right amount of time to implementtit. >> reporter: all of these tasks become more daunting when you consider lawmakers just took break.r a 9 day tax giving they reconvene on monday, november 29th. coming up on the early edition, the fiiht over renewing bush era tax cuts. ii it doesn't happen. and theebusiest travel day is coming up by wednesday and with it comes a chance of some showers moving in

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it is 5:422on a monday morning, and we're looking at a dryyscan out there right now, though there could be misty skies and a little bit of fog in spots, just not showing up here on our sky watch hd radar. -hennwe check out hings in motion and we look fuuther toward the north, that is when valley and moving us toward new england. not coming here, at least not now. the temperatures areegoing to be rather comfortable in the northern part of the sttte. we have the cloud cover and that is going to produce the fog with the southerly flow. you can see winds are calm, 86% relative humidity and the barometer is falling for the time being. it is veryymoist indeed. 46 deggees the temperature in baltimore, cooler in salisbury at 36 and rather mild for thh mountainous areas in oakland. weeare going to see the frontal boundary move further toward the north and going to get more of a -outherly air in here. that is going to bring more

moisture. it will also bring in more warmth so we will get into the low 60s today and mid-to upper 60s, upper 60s by tomorrow and then the frontal boundary moves through, bringing some showers with it as we get toward the latter part of tomorrow and into your wednesday for again, the busiest travel day of the year. now this next front is what may bring us some showers by thanksgiving as it first akes a dive to south and it moves in we're expecting by today if ú%u're innthe eastern shore, the temperatures climbing to 46 for the high. morning fog and ccouds and wait for sunshine in the afternoon. 60 deggees for the central part of the state, giving way to some sunshine laterrafter the foggy and cloudy start, 60 degrees for the western part of maryland where we should see some sunshine later. the cloudd will be partly cloudy to mostly cloudy but it will be mild then, because of the cloud cover. tomorrow it's 67 degrees. another warm day, in fact, and bee degree53 degrees on wednesdh partly cloudy skies with

increasing cloud cooer, and wednesday it will be a night rain that we have to deal with. if you're leaving early for travel, you shouldn't have too mmch a problem at all. showers continuing earll friday with the high. a cool day to come. the 46 and 48 as the ravens return home to taae on the buck kneebuccaneers on sunday aftern. well said, we are talkiig ú%out the actual speeds and you will like the numbers out there. right now onnthe beltway we're at 58 miles per hour on the entire west side stretch. we waat to take i liv i a live , can barely see the lights there. ii's going to be foggy out there. be sure to use extra caution and be sure that the low beams are on, nnt the high beams.ú farther down on the bellway there's an accident a crash on

the outer loop lanes, the carr3 hit a jersey wall. there's no signs of back up yet. so we're in the clear. we're looking good inner and outer loop lanes as well. and nothing to get in your way on 95 traveling through whitemarsh. in fact, we're some excellent shape moving up toward joppa road of the let's take a live look at mountain road and the volume that is starting to accumulate on the orthbound and southbound lanes as well. that's a look at the morning travels, patrice, back over to you as well. you can make a difference for the less fortunate. year's toy for tots. we're having a call, on friday morning. bring a new unwrapped toy from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.mm you can spread some cheer, meet the fox 45 morning crew and make

it's the million dollar question. will aaeeicans open up their wallets for the holidays? as james tells us, uncertainty casting some doubts. >> reporter: tis' the seeson

to buy gifts, but do americans plan to buy as much this season. with the congress in limbo, many predict that families will hold on to their money. >> if you think that tomorrow it's going to be worthless, you won't spend. >> reporter: the firm calculates that the bush era tax ú%ts a married couple earning $50,000 will earn $3,000 more..3 a married couple will pay $55000 more. and if you're singinn earning $50,000, you ccn expect to pay $1,100 in taxes. economists say this will be difficult for everyone trying to live within a budget while trying to buy gifts. >> if they don't know what the tax bracket is going to be and if they don't know what the they don't want to end up in january with a lot of holiday bills, and less moon ow money ty

them because the bush tax cuts weren't extend. >> reporter: businesses will take a huge hit. others disagree. they say earners in top economic brackets should be expected to pay more and receive fewer tax credits. >> if it auuomatically meant job creation, we wouldn't have the problem that we have now with high unemployment. >> reporter: president obama is indicating he wants to extend the tax cuts only to families making $250,000 year or less. he is expected to meet with republicans who want to extend them for everyone. fox news. coming up, later on foo 45 morning news, an assortment of action stars are ready to -umble. the movies including the expandles available on dvd this week. next the ravens brinn the snack

for the last few weeks coaches ask players have talked abouting off to a faster start in game, trying to avoid the need for a 4th quurter come back. you can't start much faster than they did yesterday. first quarter, it's the second ravens play for of the game. joe flacco airs it out for hush -an sahooshman sadhoushmandzada. the ravens get out to a quick start on the road, 7-0. bullet for mason that one isws a good for a gaae of 23. and flacco finds number 84, again, houshmandzadah with the

seconn catch of the game. ravens settled for a field. but the panthers strike back. enter michael goodson, he explodes to the ravens defense for a puckup of 45 yards. he rushed for 120 in the game. they kicked the field goal to trail 10-3. second quarter, flacco orchestratiig another drive, finds todd heath outside of the numbers. he stumles out o stumbles out o. ray rice makes a great catch of the down to the panthers, 13, and the first down. rice just walks right in, untouched for the 1-yard score. ravens led. the ravens finally get a good return. david reid takes it 2 yards deep into the end zone. follows the block and hassplenty

of room along the sidelines and %-carolina 20, 84 yards for the return the rookie white out. con dan, connecteddon the field goal. ravens on top, 20-30. on the ravens ensuing kickoff. captain feels it at the 11. the 25 up and bounces back to the near side. gets by con din and eventually races off. the games, panthers down 14. they wish they had this onee3 back. they face david gidid, panthers %-down.ell us gap to the touch 5 minutes left. the ravens defense wakes up, intercepted by number 20, and number 20 ed reid does what he does best.

catches a it at the 23, the ravs pull away up 17. following the kickoff, st. pier throws it off. to 22. and the second defensive touch down, and ray lewis becomes the second player in the nfl history to have 30 intersections and 30 stacks. the ravens roll against the helpless panthers, 37-13 the final. >> i don't think we played this well. we are goong to have to look at that, but it was good to come down here and get a win. now we got to get back home and get ready. >> we never should have put ourselves in thisssituation. we made some plays down the stretch and we won the game. >> you know, i after i cut bbck across the field aad saw a line man, the quarterback there, i thought i could have made it, beeause duwan was cominggto

block. >>and me and him are great ttndem that is on the same page aad can expect those kind of things from each other. i played a little quarterback, he playee a little quarterback. ú%e action is in us. we want to take advantage as smartly as much as we can. >> that's the kind of lateral you are looking for. it was backward lateral which is harder than you think in those situation when both guys are moving. i thought the waal was very good. -ttwas something we ppacticed and it was executed really well. >> can you believe that? , yeah. the ravens get their first win at franchise history against carolina and they start the season 7-3 for only the second

time. joe flacco threw for 300 yards since last year against minnesota. david reid had 1 drive yard 135e 3 kick returns highlighted by the 45-yarder you saw. that's your morning sports. i'm kristennberset for fox 45 morning news. sunday'sswin probably inflated the spirits of a lot of ravens fans but these ladies didn't need any help wiih that. they had tte raven player you see behind them for that. no matter where you're from, ravens fans to send us photos showing off